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After eighteen years of deficit reduction, the hole in the Safely becomes abysmal again

2020-05-10T21:15:17.052Z


The deficit is expected to plunge to 41 billion euros. And again, this is an optimistic assumption.


Years of efforts were finally to come to the end of the hole of the Safely. The government had planned to fill it definitively in 2020 after eighteen years of deficit! But, already postponed to 2023 due to the yellow vests crisis, this goal literally vanishes with the epidemic. Far from the 1.9 billion deficit (general scheme + old age solidarity fund FSV) reached at the end of 2019, the coronavirus will explode the Social Security deficit at more than 41 billion euros. The " never-seen" , warned the Minister of Public Accounts, Gerald Darmanin. Even the record for 2010, with a deficit of 28 billion Secu in the wake of the 2008 crisis, is exceeded.

This dropping out of social security is explained on the one hand by the government's decision to commit 8 billion euros in new spending, but it results above all from the collapse of social security revenues. On the expenditure side, the national health spending target (Ondam) for 2020, which should have increased

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Source: lefigaro

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